Trevor

A few comments on the last past of your post:

In the past, a lot of wines were not filtered as time simply did the job. I
remember an old-timer in Chablis say that they use to leave the wine in the
barrels for years so they became clear and as stable as possible.

Today, technology has given us the possibility of making a wine in three
months. With yeasts for alcoholic and Malolactic fermentations. A quick cold
stabilisation and filtering, the wine is in the bottle and ready to be
drink.

He said that filtering is like polishing a car, I don't really agree, I
believe fining is more like polishing a car and more important then
filtering.

I have tested and tasted my wines, one being filtered and the other
unfiltered. The unfiltered clearly wins.

Just my thoughts.

Marc

"pinky" > a écrit dans le message de news:
...
>I have just been informed by Mr Jeff Anderson, Export Market Manager with
>Winexpert, that a new wine kit in this series is just about to be launched
>in UK. It is called Selection Estate Crushendo and contains crushed grape
>skins. It is just about to be shipped in its container to the UK
>distributor and will obviously be in very limited supply over here in UK
>initially. I have already been in contact with the UK distributor and have
>ordered one! I cannot find any information about it on the Winexpert
>website.
>
> I got this information as a result of correspondence about the Selection
> red wine kits in general and was most grateful for the way my enquiries
> and comments were received by Winexpert (including adverse comments by me
> as well).
>
> I was wondering if anyone, over the other side of the pond, has yet used
> this new kit and what comments might be available. After the mails from
> Mr Jeff Anderson it is my intention to follow the instructions with the
> new kit implicitly down to the last "T" ( except I will not use any
> sorbate included) and see how the wine resolves itself.
>
> An interesting comment about my Bulk aged Selection Estate Lodi Old Vines
> Zinfandel which I started in September 2003 and am just about to bottle.
> The extract below is from his e-mail
>
> "You said the Selection Old Vine Zinfandel is ready for bottling, and I
> noticed it has bulk aged for some time and you have not filtered it. If I
> can make some suggestions 1. bulk aging there really is no advantage here,
> you can leave it for 30-45 days but I recommend you bottle soon after it
> has finished the process, from our experience it will age faster in the
> bottle. 2. I recommend you filter unless you are looking for the taste of
> lees, this can also give you that blandness, with this kit the there was a
> lot of Oak which should give you a little more astringency. Also filtering
> is like polishing your car, when you wash it looks good as when you fine
> the wine it look clean and clear, Now when you polish your car it looks
> fantastic and you like to drive around in it to show everyone, that is
> what filtering does for the wine it polishes it and you want to share it
> with friends as well it removes that yeast flavour and impurities"
>
> I confess that I am still most reluctant to filter my wines but I shall
> think about it and perhaps try it with this new wine if it is recommended.
>
>
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